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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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To advance the purpose for which the farm bureau was organized, 

 namely to promote, protect and represent the business economic, 

 social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation , 

 and to develop agriculture. 



Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave.. Mount Morris, 

 Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Edited by Department 

 of Information, E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street. 

 Chicago, Illinois. Entered as second-class matter October 20. 1925, at 

 the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 

 Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec- 

 tion 412, Act of February 28, 1925. authorized October 27. 1925. The 

 individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is 

 five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for sub- 

 scription to the Illinois Agricultur.^l Association Record. Post- 

 master: In returning an uncalled for or missent copy please indicate 

 key number on address as is required by law, ^ 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-Pr.esident, Frank D. Barton Cornell 



Treasurer, R . A. Cowles Bloomington 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



(By Congressional Districts) 



1st to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



ISth A. N. Skinner, Yates City 



16th A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut 



18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



20th "..... Charles S. Black; Jacksonville 



21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo 



23rd ,. , W.L. Cope, Salem 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



iSth Fred Dietz, De Soto 



DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS 



Business Serw ce Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch 



Farm Supply '. . . J. R. Bent 



Finance i R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper 



General Off ice J. H. Kelker 



Information .' E. G. Thiem 



Insurance (Actuarial) ' J. P- Gibson 



Insurance (Acquisition) .......; V. Vaniman 



Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing , Ray E. Miller 



Organization •,...,; G, £, Metzger 



Poultry and Egg Marketing' ^ F, A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics '. J. C. Watson 



Transportation '. L, J. Quasey 



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Our Political Policy 



"E ARE not endorsing candidates for any office, 

 nor criticising any of them. We are merely pre- 

 senting the records to our people and requesting them to 

 vote for those who are worthy of support." 



This pronouncement made by President Earl C. Smith 

 before the 17th I. A. A. District Conference at Blooming- 

 ton last week expresses definitely the policy of the Asso- 

 ciation in political matters, and the information published 

 in this issue of The Record is in line with the expression. 



The Association belicTes that every voter is entitled to 

 exercise his own judgment in performing this solemn duty 

 of citizenship. But it has consistently held that its mem- 

 bers should have the facts so they may judge with delib- 

 eration and intelligence before casting the ballot. 



Check Up On Delegates 



THE Illinois Agricultural Association recently sub- 

 mitted a questionnaire to all prospective delegates to 

 the Republican and Democratic national conventions. 



The questionnaire asked for their attitude on certain 

 matters which we consider of fundamental importance, 

 namely, whether or not they will stpnd unequivocally and 

 steadfastly for that presidential candidate or candidates 

 who are friendly to agriculture, and are ready to accept 

 the principles of farm surplus control legrislation em- 

 bodied in the McNary-Haugen bill. 



Replies to these questionnaires already are coming in 

 in large numbers. The information they impart will be 

 forwarded to Farm Bureau leaders in every Illinois 

 county. ; , 



Awake in the 19th 



THE militant Farm Bureau members of the 19th Con- 

 gressional District are aroused over the activities of 

 designing politicians who are seeking to euchre them out 

 of an acceptable delegate to the Republican National 

 Convention. 



The farmers want Fred. D. Lewis, a Tolono banker and 

 supporter of Frank O. Lowden. One of the local poli- 

 ticians would like to put over another candidate not so 

 minded. At which the Farm Bureau groups expressed 

 themselves at the I. A. A. District Conference held Mar. 

 15 at Champaign essentially as follows: 



"WHEREAS, Since it is necessary again to call atten- 

 tion to the fact that politics in the past has been played 

 behind 'closed doors'; and 



"WHEREAS, sincerity and frankness are the two 

 essential qualities which mean much to the correction of 

 the farm problem; and, 



"WHEREAS, the farm situation demands that business 

 men and farmers use every effort toward formulating a 

 basic political program designed to correct the evils that 

 now exist; 



"THEREFORE be it resolved that we support Frederick 

 D. Lewis of Tolono and George Jeffries of Coles county 

 as delegates to the Republican National Convention; 



"That we urge and request that no candidates for office 

 be supported except those whose attitude on farm equality 

 is known to be fair and genuinely true; 



"And that we condemn the action of machine politicians 

 who under the guise of friendliness to the farm problem 

 are still doing everything possible by propaganda and 

 otherwise to the disadvantage of the farmers' best inter- 

 ests." 



Defying The Law I ; . 



IT would be amusing were it not so serious to see to 

 what ends tax administrators will go in some counties 

 to defy the law and defeat justice. 



After the Stephenson County Boavl of Review admitted 

 in a hearing before the Illinois Tax Commission that as- 

 sessed valuations in that county were in need of adjust- 

 ment, they went home and did nothing. Perhaps the home 

 boys at Freeport got to them on their arrival. At any 

 rate, it became necessary for the Commission to exercise 

 its authority and order a reassessment. 



The local assessor in Freeport, it was reported, went 

 out and returned with a net change in the total valua- 

 tions of $8980. The facts, which were not disputed by 

 the Board of Review when they appeared before the Tax 

 Commission, revealed that Freeport property is assessed 

 at only 34.50 per cent of its fair valuation whereas farm 

 lands are assessed at 46.16 per cent. 



Now the Stephenson County Farm Bureau has filed a 

 second complaint with the Commission charging the Board 

 with non-feasance and asking that the reassessment be 

 declared null and void. 



As we go to press, the report comes that a similar situ- 

 ation exists in Champaign county where a reassessment 

 was ordered months ago. Similar action may be neces- 

 sary there. Such open disregard of the law is deplorable. 

 It should not be necessary to appeal to a state body like 

 the Tax Commission to secure justice. It is very plain 

 that it may become necessary for the Commission to 

 seek other remedies to enforce its requests. 



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PLEASED WITH IT 



The Illinois Agricultural Association Record approved of the action 

 in the Legislature in limiting the bondingr power of down state taxing 

 districts to 2^4 per cent of total full valuations of properties therein. 

 It then says that tax relief is farm relief, and that farmers will insist 

 on economy in government. This is the position taken by the Register- 

 Mail with reference to the situation. Every one of the municipalities 

 which clamored for the power to increase their bonding capacity ouprht 

 to realize that their citizens are now being ta^ed in many directions, 

 and that only absolute necessity would justify an increase in the 

 burdens, (Galesburg Register-Mail) 



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